The Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda's (AQ) branch in Somalia, claimed the assassinations of a staff member from the Office of the Prime Minister and the former chief of U.S.-trained Somali elite forces, both in the capital, Mogadishu.

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